Mary Keefe Hirsekorn

I enjoyed it, but this movie needed to be way more high-camp to the level where we can almost see the actors having fun. Somehow they all landed awkwardly on the "serious actor" side of the whole thing. It doesn't play. To me, it would have worked if it was more like the first Batman movie -- that was high camp as well, but quirky fun. And as a reminder, that movie was a smash hit. I'll give you an example of how this movie could have worked. Take the Xmas witch who looked like Elizabeth Montgomery when she was made-up and I really wanted her to play it up like the character Serena (from Bewitched) but all we got emotionally was like that of an annoyed teenager waiting for her ride or something. And Chris Evans does not have the quirk level -- say of Sam Rockwell -- that his part needed. And Johnson, is well...Serious Johnson. (And comic wonderkind Bonny Hunt is just criminally wasted.) I think they were trying to get to that high-camp level, but the whole thing just fell short. And I blame the director for that. All those actors are quite capable of achieving that height, but for some reason they never did.

Instead of a documentary -- like the book -- we get a drama about a self-aggrandizing raving harpy who's nasty to whoever's around including people who actually try to help. And occasionally stunning desert vistas. Yes Daryl Zanuck lived to make movies so that an Academy Award could be given to a woman who took a poop in a bucket! And also, it's a bit sanctimonious that a rich movie star is basically going about griping in junkets about the treatment of poor people. Like I said, they should have made a documentary where Ms. McDormand as the narrator talks with the ACTUAL nomads. That would have been moving AND truthful WITH ZERO sancitoniousness. But I guess you don't get the big Oscar prize with a documentary, do you. PS I've met NOMADS and they are NOTHING like Ms. McDormand's character at all. Yes, they struggle, but they are quite impressive with their almost zen approach to life and adventure and wouldn't have it any other way.

Snoresville. The music is the best part. They should have just kept that and tossed the rest. The rest ...what a washout. I was a kid during that era and everything was upbeat, colorful, happy, people really did go 'round spreading love and daisies. But this colorless -- not the sets, the actors -- dour, depressing, almost angry movie is just pits. It does not depict the '60s nor Bob Dylan (taken from another review). It's self-indulgent tripe by newer artists trying to say "We're just as good as him, it's just that we're depressed." Great message. Sooooo '60s. /s My advice to the current stock of artists doing movies: please, get some therapy stat and quit depicting your inner turmoil onscreen. We get it, you're rich, but you life sucks and you want to tell us ALL about it. Well, that means I'm paying you for your own therapy. Ha. We did our inner work already; you go do yours. And YOU pay the money for it, instead of us. How 'bout that for a change? Afterall, the times they are doin' just that.

This movie is FANTASTIC.It's a satire, but also an action movie -- I don't think I've ever seen both those genres in one movie before. It makes fun of everyone: action movie stars, fixers, mafiosos, action movies themselves, and amazingly it skewers the media too! All in all a GREAT movie. Wish Hollywood were coming up with something like this, but nope. From now on, I'm going to be watching a lot more movies from India, because they're at the top of their game right now. (And they always have the best speeches at the end. Simple and quiet in their profundity.)

If you enjoy watching academy award winners and nominees carp at each other, then this strum and drang is for you!!! Watch a woman nastily insult multiple members of her family! Why? Who cares!!! Not my cup of tea at all. Didn't watch the whole thing. I recommend others do the same.

As yet another show that has full grown adults behaving like teenagers. (Cue slow blinking with pursed lips.) No offense, but YAWN. Click. (They lost me at the "clear mole" part. I've NEVER heard real adults talk like this. And if they did, they'd clearly be known as the ones "that never grew up".)

Where's all the food? I'm so sick of these dystopian adaptations that have everyone being in existential anger/angst and you look at the horizon and there's nothing to eat. They're dead so what's the dread? Show over in 5 minutes. And the one guy who tries to create fruit from a tree winds up exploding it so they wind up eating bugs. Yeah, LOTR at its finest. Tolkein is spinning...in his grave. PS My husband said "Maybe they can get to Applebees." I rest my case.

Did the writer of this movie ever actually listen to Princess Diana talk? Like ever? I don't know who's up on the screen in this movie, but it ISN'T her. Princess DIana not only had a certain sly coyness about her but a royal above-the-fray cool detachment that showed through even when asked cagey questions. This is a quality I've NEVER seen any actress pull off in any Princess Diana vehicle. Perhaps a movie star of old, like Elizabeth Taylor, could have done it, but any modern actress just shuts down and goes neurotic. Take Naomi Watts' dreadful turn or worse, the giggling school girl of Catherine Oxenburg. Just wincing. And Kristen Stewart? Sure if you think being catanoic is some sort of acting coup.They all project their own weaknesses onto her, but none of them captured the essence of Princess Diana. And perhaps none ever will. Save your money. Just listen to the real audio tapes of Princess Diana. That's who Spencer really was and IS.

GREAT MOVIE. Wanted it to work out well, but ugh. As far as I'm concerned those 2 men are amazing angels. I am glad that Mr. Jackson -- executive producer -- got this movie made. We need to see more true life stories like this one.

Loved the comedy conversations between the two women, but other than that, it's all cliched blow-em-up overkill and includes the dull over-used yawnfest trope of women who only need "confidence" to succeed. If you take out all the violence, you've got a 30 minute movie at best. My recommendation: just watch the Mila/Kate parts and fast forward through all the other violence. I'd LOVE a movie where women are spies and they DON'T have to kill to get the job done. LIke, they're smarter, you know?